INDEX 



Abiogenesis, Tragus on, 236, 237 

 Abrotonum, genus, 116 

 Absinthium, Seriphium, 212 



vulgare, 212 

 Acacia, Arabica, 132 



metamorphic kinds of, 138 



Senegal, 132 



wild plum mistaken for, 266 

 Acanaceae, family, 114 

 Acanthus, genus, 116 

 Acama, name of thistle, 113 

 Acer pseudo platanus, 23 7 

 Achillea, genus, 246 

 Acines, leaves mistaken for, 258 

 Aconitum, genus, 116 

 Acorus Calamus, 123 

 Acte, Greek for Sambucus, 119, 208 

 Adam, Melchior, biographer, 220, 222 

 Adanson, M., criticises Pliny, 159 



dedicates genus to Nicander, 145 



historian of botany, 16 



on early authors, 1 7 



views of botany comprehensive, 1 6 

 Adiantum, genus, 216 

 Adonis ssstivalis once thought an 



Anthemis, 214 

 Adoxa, discovered by Cordus, 311 

 /Egilops, genus, 116 

 Aerial roots, Theophrastus on, 75 

 Estivation noted first by Cordus, 



288, 289 

 Affinities, of Bryonia seen first by 

 Cordus, 298 



of Capsicum not seen by Fuchs, 210 



of Capsicum suggested by Tragus, 

 252 



of Datura seen first by Fuchs, 209 



of Glycyrrhiza shown first by 

 Cordus, 296 



of Mom^rdica shown first by Cor- 

 dus, 298 

 Agamemnon and famous trees, 135 

 Age of trees, Theophrastus on, 134 

 Agricultural botany, of antiquity, 



144 

 treatise by Cato, 146 

 work by Columella, 151 

 work by Varro, 148 

 poems of Virgil, 149 



Agrimonia, genus, 255 

 Agrostemma Flos Jovis, 123 

 Agrostis, genus, 116 

 Aira, genus, 116 

 Alse, early term for axils, 199 

 Alder tree, once believed flowerless, 

 88 • 

 credited with flowers by Theo- 

 phrastus, 88 

 Theophrastan ecology of, 12; 

 aments of, described by Tragus, 

 228 

 Alexander the Great, scientific staff 



of, 133 

 Alexipharmica, work of Nicander, 



145 

 Alexius, Greek rhizotomus, 49, 50 

 Algae held to be plants by Theo- 

 phrastus, 73 

 AUiaria, Tragus on ecology of, 257 

 Almond flowers studied by Theo- 

 phrastus, 85 

 Alnus oblongata, 121 

 Alopecurus, genus, 116 

 Alphabetic sequence, abjured by 

 Tragus, 239 

 not used by Brunfels, 176 

 precludes rational system, 176 

 Althea, genus, 116 

 Amaryllis, part of early Lilium, 42 

 Amelanchier vulgaris, 1 23 

 Aments, of alder described by Tra- 

 gus, 228 

 of hazel described by Theophras- 

 tus, 83 

 of pine overlooked by Theophras- 

 tus, 88 

 of willows. Tragus on, 239 

 Ammi, genus, 185 

 Amygdalus Persica, 34 

 Anagrammatic names, 219 

 Anatomy, Theophrastus on, 67, 97- 



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of mullein by Tragus, 225 

 of many plants by Cordus, 307-309 

 Anazarbos, birthplace of Dioscorides, 



152 

 Anblatum, old name of Lathraea, 304 

 Anchusa, genus, 116 



315 



